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"Williams, the Montclair State criminologist, added that all law enforcement data is racially biased in two major ways. First, police disproportionately arrest
by Bostonian 5y ago
"Williams, the Montclair State criminologist, added that all law enforcement data is racially biased in two major ways. First, police disproportionately arrest people of color, especially Black people."
This by itself does not establish bias. The question is whether a black person committing a crime is more likely to be arrested than a non-black person committing the same crime.
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- tuesdayrain 5y ago>First, police disproportionately arrest people of color, especially Black people. That's similar to saying that police disproportionately arrest men relative to women, therefore they must be sexist.
- readflaggedcomm 5y agoExcept that men are in a position of power, black men aren't.
- chuckee 5y agoUse 'position of power' to argue that systems are biased in favor of a group, not against it, then use that positive bias as evidence for the groups power. Brilliant.